Clarion 1977-02-18 Vol 52 No 16

Bethel College
Advising system standards to be set
Dr. Glenn will be one of five Faculty members to speak on Biblical interpretation.
Bethel purchases Fountain Terrace apt's
Profs to expound on
hermeneutics next week
by Diana Gonzalez
"The Bible Department has felt
that basic to our discussing and
thinking -about our faith around
the campus is the interpretation
of scripture," said Jim Spickel-mier.
During the week of February 21
to February 25, the Department of
Biblical and Theological Studies
will be presenting a chapel series
on Biblical hermeneutics.
"To help students understand
what hermeneutics entails, five
members of our department are
going to take one chapel each to
discuss how to go about interp-reting
the Bible," said Dr. Al
Glenn.
On Monday, Dr. Walter Wessel
will begin this chapel series by
discussing the necessity of re-translating
the Bible. Dr. Wessel
has had experience in translating
part of the New Testament for the
New International Version.
Dr. John Piper will speak the
following day on interpreting the
expository literature of the New
Testament.
"Different parts of the Bible
have to be interpreted in different
ways," said Dr. Glenn. "There are
many different genres in the
Bible. You can't use the same
type of interpretation for different
types of literature. On Wednes-day,
Dr. Stein is going to take a
specific example of New Testa-ment
literature, a parable, and
show how to go about interpret-ing
it."
For the fourth chapel talk of
this series, Dr. Art Lewis will
discuss the interpretation of
Messianic prophesy as an exam-ple
of Old Testament hermeneu-tics.
Dr. Glenn commented that on
Friday he will "show how a
systematic theologian interprets
the Bible. As a systematic
theologian, I have to deal with the
entire Bible. I will try to tie all the
previous chapel sessions togeth-er
and discuss how it relates to
us today.
" "We realize that this is going to
be serious subject matter. Our
purpose is not to do the typical
sermonic kind of chapel presen-tation,
but to show students how
to interpret the Bible," com-mented
Dr. Glenn.
Dr. Glenn added that herme-neutics
is a vital issue for
Christians today since the oppos-ing
viewpoints Christians hold on
various issues stem from how
they approach Biblical herme-neutics.
by David Shelley
"The real key to advising is
knowing the curriculum well,"
said Dwight Jessup, director of
academic affairs, concerning aca-demic
advisers.
At present the only policy
governing the duties of advisers
is an advising manual which
basically covers requirements for
graduation within each concen-tration.
The academic policies commit-tee
is currently considering a
possible standard for advisers.
"The basic requirement for
advisers is just to meet with the
students before registration
time," Jessup said. "The adviser
is involved a little more with
students in special programs.
"We would like all the advisers
to have good personal relation-ships
with each advisee," he
stated, "but curriculum is the real
responsibility. Some do a great
job and we wish some would do a
little bit more.
"I'm sure the system can be
improved," Jessup added, "but it
is hard to govern."
Advisers are notified if an
advisee gets a mid-term note for
doing D or N work up to that
point. They are also notified to
post specific times for office
hours about two weeks prior to
registration.
All full-time and a few part-time
faculty members are expect-ed
to serve as advisers.
Tuition charges at Bethel Col-lege
next year will reflect the
rising costs that seem to be a way
of life for American residents and
households. Students will pay
$300 per college course for the
1977-78 year according to a
statement released by the Dean's
Office. This will mean a total
annual increase of $180 for those
students carrying the normal
total of nine courses per acade-mic
year.
The tuition increase is necessi-tated
by higher college operating
costs and allows the college to
keep pace with rising expendi-tures
and provide minimal in-creases
for faculty-staff salaries.
An increase in the student
financial aid funds provided by
Some concentrations, such as
foreign language, have fewer
advisees and others such as
business, have more. "The load is
evened out somewhat by adding
freshmen," Jessup said.
"We also have a few advising
who aren't faculty, for instance
Jill Newcomer, music secretary,"
he stated. "There have been times
when we've used seniors as
advisers, if they knew the curricu-lum
well."
Jessup said that one check on
advisers is in the clearing of
seniors for graduation, which is
handled by Paul Reasoner of the
registrar's office. "He is kind of
an adviser's adviser," Jessup
said, "but again, that only
involves curriculum."
the college is also being made
and will be commensurate with
the tuition increase.
Any changes in special instruc-tional
fees, such as private music
lessons, graduation fees, and
student teaching fees, have yet to
be announced. The same is true
of campus housing costs where
some increase is anticipated, but
developments are still pending.
Several housing options are likely
to be available. Announcements
about these costs are anticipated
within the next four to six weeks.
The minimum required food
coupon purchases per regular
term (fall and spring) will remain
at $100 for Snelling campus
residence and $225 for Arden
Hills residence.
Annual tuition rate
increases $180 per year
by Nancy Naumenko
The problem of married student
housing at Bethel is not a new
one and steps have been taken to
remedy the situation. A set of
apartments has recently been
purchased for the accommoda-tion
of married students.
"Fountain Terrace", which is
located right across 35W and just
north of County Road E2, con-tains
72 unfurnished apartments
and 39 garages. There are 70
two-bedroom, 1 single bedroom,
and 1 three-bedroom suites.
At the present Bethel holds no
accommodation for married stu-dents.
There are 123 apartments
at the Seminary but only in rare
cases are college students per-mitted
housing there.
Present rates at Fountain Ter-race
vary from $175 to $207.50 per
month, but Paul Drake, director
of auxiliary enterprises, declined
to comment on future Bethel
rates, as this information is yet
pending.
When questioned whether the
goal of this project would be
similar to that of the food service,
in that it would be profit-making,
Mr. Drake replied "I don't think
so."
It seems there would be no
difficulty in filling the apart-ments.
According to a survey by
Dr. Mack Nettleton, director of
student affairs, there are current-ly
47 married seminary couples
and 40 married Bethel College
couples who "might be interest-ed"
in leasing these apartments.
Leasing is presently on a
month-to-month basis with the
present renters and will continue
this way until August 1. It is still
uncertain as to leasing arrange-ments
following that date.
Marilyn Starr, director of hous-ing,
stated, "Good business
would say that you would have to
have a 12-month lease and
students are notorious for want-ing
a 9-month lease. So, there are
going to be some problems."
The college is not presently
contemplating any bus service to
and from the complex.
The original reason for the
purchase of the apartments
sprung from the dire need of the
seminary for additional housing.
on the inside
Response to racism,
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p. 4
Bethel absurdities,
P. 5
Social climate critiqued;
investigation encouraged
It is safe to say that a large segment of the Bethel population is
disappointed with the social climate here on campus. This fact was
underscored in last week's Clarion, when an unofficial survey of
student opinion demonstrated an almost unanimously negative
response to on-campus activities (or lack of such activities).
The brunt of the blame for the social aridity of Bethel is placed upon
the campus coordinators. As again seen in the survey, students feel
that the campus coordinators have fallen short of their responsibility
in not providing a fuller, more well-rounded slate of activities.
This groundswell of student opinion is an indication of the
importance of the campus coordinators at Bethel. These two people
are directly responsible for the social climate of a school of 1726
students. The difficulties in such a job are obvious. Trying to please all
1726 individuals at least some of the time is an enormous task.
But these difficulties do not hide the face that this year's social
climate at Bethel has been a veritable desert. And the question that
must be answered is . . . why? Is the problem due to this year's
failures? Or is it due to a lack of funds, or to the fact that the campus
coordinators are only part-time workers?
We don't have the answers now, but we need them before next year,
when we will have around 100 more students. It's up to the Student
Senate to investigate this solution immediately and arrive at some
definite answers and solutions.
President, editor respond
to Bethel racial problems
In response to the racial slurs made on Valentine's Day, we are
overcome with a combination of repulsion and sadness. This
deplorable act is sickening, especially in this "Christian" college.
For some individuals, this incident brings a deep hurt; for us, a
sense of embarrassment and righteous anger.
This blatantly racist action is shocking, but our response is not
limited to this incident. What about the subtlely insidiuos racism
that penetrates much of Bethel and, in fact, America as a whole?
Some of this is due to naivete and some to white-black tensions in
the cities. But considering Christ's ethical pronouncements on love
for all, and considering Christ's relationship with minorities such
as the Samaritans and women, racism of any sort is inexcusable for
Christians.
We are not just talking about institutionalized racism; we are
talking about a racism of individuals, an undercurrent of prejudice
that manifests itself in our stereotypes, fears, jokes, etc. And thus
our response must be, with the aid of the Holy Spirit, to examine
our lives, our beliefs and our actions. We want to isolate and attack
those aspects of our life that do not meet Christ's standards of love
and justice for all.
The most tragic outcome of this incident would be for our
response to be a short-lived flaring of emotion (accompanied by a
dose of proud piety) with no long-ierm effect. Plans begun in
January for a Minorities Week will culminate March 7-11. Our goal
is to continue building toward this event. We pray that next month
will prove to be an important step for individuals and the institution
in learning about love and justice. And we hope that the Bethel
community will strongly support and become involved in this
effort.
Pete Taylor, president, Student Association
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preceding publication.
letters to
the editor
Suto speaks
Dear Editor:
There I was picking through the
ancient ruins of what used to be
known as St. Paul (or was it
Minneapolis) when this horrible
noise began emanating from the
throggletugger and before I knew
it here I was. So here I am stuck
in the 20th century, my time
machine broken, and no way to
fix it in this archaic era!
I should never have wandered
away from the class, especially in
a restricted area. But then, the
professor always encourages ini-tiative
and I was tired of hearing
all those lectures about the
American civilization and its
decline. If you've heard about the
energy waste once, you've heard
it a quantum of times, right?
Anyway, I managed to ride the
kringrump and get the machine
under control only to find that I
had arrived in a small room
labeled "Campus Coordinator". I
can assure you that Karen and
Dan were as surprised to see me
as I was to be there. But they
soon overcame this and were very
sensitive and concerned over my
problem. I guess they're just that
kind of people. They came up
with all sorts of imaginative ideas
as to what I could do to make a
living here and possibly fix the
machine but I could see that it
was futile. Here I am and here I'll
stay.
Does anyone know how to fix a
throggletugger?
Suto Nimulus
(Rick Reed)
Students appalled
Dear Editor:
We were appalled and sickened
during chapel on Monday. Gene
Blair's Valentine message left us
ashamed. Perhaps some day this
"Christian Community" will live
up to its Christian commitment
and rise above race, sex and
creed, and love as Christ taught
us to.
Mary Nelson
Julie Peterson
Sheryl Tengwall
We're sorry
Dear Editor:
Racism is antithetical to Chris-tianity,
insulting to intelligence
and destructive to community.
But, as seen in last Monday's
chapel, racism exists at Bethel.
We are disappointed in the
anonymous individuals who have
made a sham of Bethel's claims
to Christian commitment, educa-tional
ideals and communal
bonds. We have never imagined
Bethel to be an idyllic place of
perfection, but we do expect
respect for and acceptance of
individuals.
To those who have been hurt:
we're sorry.
Sincerely,
Laura Alden Gayle Trollinger
Marti Burger Jennifer Wilkens
Faculty bill of rights
(from the file of Al Glenn)
Every instructor shall have the right to:
1. Choose those students who will be allowed to enroll in his
courses.
2. Drop any student within the first three weeks without the
student's permission.
3. Have three unexcused absences from lectures each quarter.
4. Take occasional naps during classroom discussions.
5. Munch on candy bars and drink Cokes during lectures.
6. Absent himself from lectures for important duties such as
plugging parking meters.
7. Arrive late for lectures if he has a legitimate excuse such as
"oversleeping."
8. Teach only those courses that motivate him and are relevant.
9. Drop courses at mid-quarter if student motivation and interest
levels are not satisfactory.
10. Write evaluations on each student and publish them at the end
of the quarter.
11. Read the student newspaper and write letters during class
discussions.
12. Begin lectures the seventh week of the course and complete the
entire quarter's work in the last three weeks.
13. Show up once every three weeks and take issue with all points
raised regarding material covered in the classes he missed.
14. Call students at any time of night to discuss their performance
on assignments.
15. Withhold -course requirements from students until Dead Week
(the week prior to Final Week).
16. Ask students if there was "anything" important in the
assignments the instructor failed to read or grade.
17. Burst into tears during instructor-student conferences when all
other tactics fail.
18. Lecture on the American political situation no matter what the
course title is.
19. Be forgiven for poor lectures if he can provide a legitimate
excuse such as "sick relative" or a "night on the town."
20. Leave class one week before the end of the quarter because he
has a ride to Ft. Lauderdale.
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Elizabeth Elliot Leitch will be the 1977 commencement speaker
Bethel regent Austin Chapman
American Studies
program to be continued
Leitch,
Olson
to speak at
graduation
According to the commence-ment
committee, Elizabeth Elliot
Leitch will bring the 1977 com-mencement
address on May 22.
Virgil Olson has been selected to
speak at the morning baccaulaur-eate
service.
Dr. Olson will center his
remarks on what Bethel students
have been given. Mrs. Leitch,
author, public speaker and mis-sionary,
will speak on what will
be required of Bethel graduates.
Text for the message is Luke
12:48.
The committee is presently
working with the subjects of
student speakers and the pro-gram
itself. Input from students
is encouraged. (Contact Pete
Taylor or Gayle Trollinger.)
by Greg Smith
Statistics show that today
there are more college students
enrolled in graduate psychology
than there are practicing psychol-ogists.
Of the 1740 students at
Bethel College, 135 are majors in
psychology. What possible
forces and implications adjoin
the surge of interest in this field?
Dr. Steve McNeel, professor of
psychology at Bethel College,
suggests that this nation-wide
interest may be due to a growing
concern for self-understanding
and self-fulfillment on the part of
many Americans. Senior psychol-ogy
major Jeff McHenry details it
as a people-oriented desire for
service. Other motivations are
certainly involved as well.
One pivotal concern of those
interested in psychology is the
condition of the job market. As
greater numbers of psychology
majors enter the market, the
threat of job scarcity increases.
Dr. McNeel reacts to this influx
with optimism.
The skills afforded the psychol-ogy
major — research and
counseling — are applicable to
teaching, private practice, per-sonal
therapy, business, govern-ment
and other occupations as
well. He sees teaching in large
research-oriented state universi-ties
as the only relatively closed
field; but other areas, especially
therapy, are in his opinion wide
open.
According to McNeel, Chris-tians
may experience some ad-vantage
over non-Christians in
obtaining employment in psy-chology.
For example, there
seems to be a real scarcity of well
trained Christian counselors.
What is the stand of the church
in connection with this surge of
interest in psychology?
The so-called dichotomy of
religion and psychology is a false
dichotomy; it would suggest a
division of the world and scrip-ture,
said McNeel. "This is not
the case however," he continued,
"for the Bible seems to empha-size
strongly both man's respon-sibility
and God's sovereignty."
(e.g. Phil. 2:13)
Many fundamentalists, and
even conservative evangelicals,
have long stood against an
integration of psychology and the
church. Mental illnesses have
been continuously referred to
man's sinful nature and been
dealt with on that basis. Essen-tially
the church has sometimes
in the past disregarded the social
and psychological influences on
men's spiritual lives.
It is fact that distorted child-hood
relationships are often
responsible for many psychologi-cal
irregularities. Unbalanced
parent-child relations give rise to
emotional experiences that result
in varying degrees of insecurity
and neurosis. These in turn often
affect man's relationship with
God.
The church, with its unique
community structure, provides a
solid basis for many preventative
psychiatric methods. As psychic
health is merely one instrument
in God's divine plan, an integra-tion
of preventative psychology
and the parish community would
help resolve the conflicts faced
by individuals in society before
immediate and pressing prob-lems
occur.
Christianity is not an automatic
cure-all, and many psychological
problems cannot be resolved with
that assumption. Yet the integra-tion
of the two can serve as a
vehicle to balance the often harsh
realities of life. (New Catholic
World, March, 1976.)
Bethel in
regent role
by Suzi Wells
Many students may wonder
exactly who or what a regent is.
Regents are people nominated by
a committee set up by the Baptist
General Conference (BGC). They
are elected to serve for a five year
period, and work with the admin-istration
on problems Bethel may
have. The regents volunteer their
free time to Bethel, as they all
have other full-time jobs. One
active regent is Mr. Austin
Chapman of Minneapolis.
Mr. Chapman explained that
the regents serve as a sounding
board to the administration as
well as to other constituents.
Problems concern faculty, stu-dents
and the BGC. Mr. Chapman
serves on the audit committee of
the board. "The board's function
is to establish a policy to provide
overall judging of the source of
the school," he said.
Some problems Mr. Chapman
has to deal with as a regent are
issues concerning the increasing
size of the school, and financial
problems are always considered,
since Bethel is heavily in debt.
Other questions are raised con-cerning
tenure of the faculty, and
generally where Bethel is going in
the future.
Mr. Chapman comes to Bethel
frequently and knows several
students. Meeting students is not
part of his job, but it helps him.
Seeing his job as more than
just a part-time activity, Mr.
Chapman commented, "Being on
the board is challenging, interest-ing,
and gives me an opportunity
to make a contribution."
The Christian College Consor-tium
has announced that the
Consortium American Studies
Program in Washington, D.C.,
will continue as a permanent
program of the Washington-based,
14 member group of
Christian liberal arts colleges.
The decision to continue the
program, begun as an experiment
during the 1976-77 academic
year, was made' by the board of
directors upon recommendation
of Consortium President Gordon
R. Werkema.
According to the Board, the
continuation of the Consortium
American Studies Program is due
to its very successful first year.
The program gives Christian
college students the opportunity
to live, work and study in the
nation's capital, viewing Ameri-can
culture from a Christian
perspective.
In its first year, about 50
students from 15 Christian col-leges
will have lived on Capitol
Hill, served as interns in various
Washington offices and agen-cies,
and studied topics ranging
from the United States Congress
to national priorities and the
United States Economy. Each
topic is taught by experts in the
field, and represents a month of
intensive study. Special attention
is given to the Christian perspec-tive
and alternatives in the area.
Student opinion of the program
has been overwhelmingly posi-tive.
Said Hope DiBlasi, a Hough-ton
College pre-law student, "I
am thrilled with the opportunities
the American Studies Program
has opened to me as a student.
There is absolutely no better
method for learning the compli-cated
and fascinating processes
of our government than to get
directly involved in those pro-cesses,
as we have been allowed
to do through this program."
Added Doug Rehberg of Gor-don
College, "The American
Studies Program has been far
more meaningful to me and
substantive to my political sci-ence
education than I could have
ever believed. I will always be
reaping the benefits of this
practical experience in Washing-ton."
Consortium President Werke-ma
believes the program is
important and has been well
received because "it so success-fully
accomplishes the integra-tion
of theory and practice; the
integration of faith and learning;
the testing of ones Christian
commitment with the realities of
contemporary society; and, the
unique opportunity to develop
Christian community."
Applications for the fall term
are being accepted now in the
Christian College Consortium
office. The deadline for submit-ting
applications is April 15.
Psych, Christianity Chapman
relationship examined serves
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Clarion survey
Seniors would make
changes if had chance
by Dan Larson
Twenty-seven seniors were
asked: "If you had the choice,
what would you do differently in
your college experience?" Nine-teen
of the students have been at
Bethel for their entire college
education, and eight are trans-fers.
Bob Bowman : "Instead of
taking four classes every semes-ter,
I would have taken three and
gone to Bethel for five years. I
would have had time to be
involved in Christian Service."
Bill Trollinger said he would
have become involved in a church
before his senior year. "For a
while, my erstwhile roommate
and I picked our churches by
going through the phone book."
Dave B. Johnson : "I wish I had
been involved in a Bible study
earlier — because now I see that
fellowship is so important in
Christian life. I would also have
made a habit of sharing more
closely with my friends."
Lori Brodd: "I would become
friends with a greater variety of
people."
Sue Greene: "I would try not to
be so preoccupied with the social
life; I had marriage on the brain."
Nancy Moulton: "I would have
lived in the dorm instead of a
townhouse my freshman year if
possible."
Nancy Jo Horvath and Faith
Conn said they would have spent
more time studying instead of
socializing. "I enjoyed people a
lot, but I mixed up some of my
priorities," said Nancy Jo.
Dawn Nordstrom: "I would
have discovered earlier the enjoy-ment
in learning. I would have
tried to learn for the joy in doing
research for myself rather than
just learning the things the
professor wanted me to know."
Phyllis Buttner said she
learned a lot by changing majors
many times. "I wouldn't have
done anything differently," she
said, "I had to figure out what the
Lord wanted me to do and where
my interests lay."
Sue Greene also said she
would have taken required
courses in the beginning. "How-ever,"
she said, "at that time I
thought I was going into dental
hygiene, but now I'm in drama."
Several students thought that
attending another school besides
Bethel would have been good. "I
wouldn't have kept myself limited
to Bethel courses," said Sue
Greene, "but would have investi-gated
courses in other colleges,
perhaps on a summer basis, so
that more time could have been
given to plays." Renae Warmouth
said, "I would probably have
studied in Europe a year."
Jeff Miller: "I wish I had known
ahead of time why I was coming
here. Then I would have known
what I was after and what I could
gain."
Some students thought fewer
years at Bethel would have been
beneficial. Sue Fox said, "I would
have taken a variety of courses,
such as ceramics and more Bible
classes, instead of worrying
about fulfilling requirements, and
probably would have quit after
two years."
Jay Wik said, "I would have
thought more seriously of trans-ferring
after my sophomore year
because I'm interested in com-mercial
aviaiton."
Jim Norris: "I would not have
come to Bethel. The reason is
that I'm interested in photogra-phy
which I found out too late."
Tim Zimmerman: "After two
years I would have seriously
contemplated transferring to a
university with a larger curricu-lum
and choice of faculty. I'm
disappointed in the inconsisten-cy
between educational policy
rhetoric and actual performance.
This can be particularly seen in
the difference between descrip-tion
and class syllabi, and the
actual or real performance of the
teacher in the classroom."
Dan Becker: "I wish I had gone
here my first two years of college
because I like Bethel a lot. I also
wish there had been enough
writing courses to make up a
major."
Terri Johnson: "I wish I had
started here because it's a pain
transferring. I was out of se-quence
in the music program and
classes from other schools are
transferred only as .83 credits.
Jan Curry: "I wish working
overseas had been required as
part of my political science
major, and I wish a senior class
surveying the social sciences had
been offered."
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by Laura Alden
I had always presumed the
corporate collegiate mind to be a
fairly open and reasonable one.
Now, as a seasoned senior, I have
concluded that the open mind is a
myth. This thesis is based on
subjective experience and can be
summed up in a word: "stump."
It was new (and news) to me
that the word "stump" was so
uproariously funny, especially
when referring to a person's,
physique. I admit that I am not a
titan when it comes to vertical
inches. But a "stump?"
The nightmare began one naive
and freshman even. I was duti-fully
(and somewhat dourly)
studying my colloquy notes when
I heard whispering through the
solid paperthin townhouse walls.
"I think it's all the coffee she
drinks," rapsed a voice.
"No, no. It's genetic. Her
parents are pygmies too," said
another.
"You're both wrong," a third
voice countered. Then, in a barely
audible undertone: "It's — glan-dular!"
"Really?!"
"Can your glands make you a
stump?"
"Stump!"
"Stump!" (shrieks of hilarious
laughter)
I was crushed. That word.
Cruel. Belittling. I felt sawed-off,
miniscule, puny. But I never told
them that I'd overheard.
The next day I bought two pairs
of platform shoes and started
posture exercises in my closet. (I
even tried to poof up my hair, but
discovered that thin, stringy hair
is non-poofable.)
I thought these steps were
successful in subverting the
"stump" mindset. But this was
the point where my present
theory gained ground. Whenever I
brought up the subjebt of my
height, the by-word of narrow
minds crept into the conversa-tion.
"Why can't you just accept
yourself? Being a stump isn't that
bad!" (Guffaws.)
So I became resentful, espe-cially
against those proponents
of the unkind (yet extremely
popular) "Lilliputian" vernacular.
These people, who are usually at
least 5-foot-10, take a strange
delight in uttering words that
destroy the short person's image.
"Stump" heads the list. Other
remarks, referring to people
under 5-foot-4 as runts, midgets,
urchins, Tom Thumbs, shrimps,
peewees or insects, don't do
much for the short person's
self-image.
In my resentful years, I devel-oped
an intellectually superior
attitude toward these image-slayers.
I fancied myself as an
aristocrat, living above the
world's slandering serfs. They
were the dull-witted, one-liner
cynics. I was above that, if not in
height, at least in mind.
Then came the enlightenment.
It happened while my friend Anne
and I were playing "gourmet
cooks" in Anne's kitchen. I didn't
see her roommate Sylvia walk in.
Sylvia was behind me when
Anne introduced her. I whirled
around, looking up to meet her.
There was no one there. Glancing
down from my tower of 5-foot-2, I
met Sylvia, who was all of
4-foot-10!
The sibilant of "stump" started
to form between my teeth.
Luckily, Anne intervened, send-ing
Sylvia on an errand.
I stood in shock for ten
seconds, letting my own narrow
mind recover from the jarring.
Then I, the aristocrat, gave up my
rights to pride and joined the
serfs.
Grudem
joins
faculty
by Kathleen Asselin
Wayne Grudem, the new pro-fessor
in the theology and
Biblical studies department,
breezed into town from Cam-bridge,
England, two weeks ago.
Two days later, he taught his first
day of classes at Bethel College.
And on Friday of the same week,
the Grudems moved into their
Arden Hills home between Theol-ogy
and Christian Ethics.
The 29-year-old professor has a
Jimmy-Carter grin, atom-ant
glasses of tortoise shell, and
dimples. While enthusiastic
about teaching at Bethel and
living in the Midwest again,
squash-buff Wayne Grudem has a
fascinating tale of how he ended
up where he is.
After graduation from Harvard
and Westminster Theological
Seminary and ordination at Salem
Baptist Church in Eau Claire,
Wis., Grudem traveled to Cam-bridge
University in England.
There he studied for his Ph.D. in
New Testament.
In January 1972, Grudem took a
course in Modern Hebrew at the
Institute of Holy Land Studies in
Jerusalem. Who else was living in
the same building but Dr. Art
Lewis, Dr. Walter Wessel, and the
Interim Israel class from Bethel?
Wayne and his wife, Margaret,
became fast friends with the
Wessels and Lewises from their
continual contact throughout the
month.
"Two years ago, Dr. Wessel
came to Cambridge on Sabbati-cal,"
said Grudem. "When we had
him over for dinner, he mentioned
that there was an opening in the
theology department at Bethel."
With Wessel's encouragement,
Grudem sent his application to
Dr. Al Glenn, chairman of the
department. This past November,
Grudem arrived in Minnesota to
finalize his appointment to the
department and then find a home.
Although he tasted Minnesota's
deep-freeze weather before re-turning
to take his oral exam at
Cambridge in January, Grudem
said that he was "happy to get
back to this climate. It's not
always wet like England."
Wayne Grudem is especially
enthused about teaching system-atic
theology.
"I switched my Ph.D. work to
New Testament because it al-lowed
me to work more with the
Bible itself," he explained, "but
actually I enjoy being somewhere
between theology and Biblical
studies."
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The Drama Department has outdone itself in its contribution to
the absurdity page. When you talk about absurd professors,
you normally mention the Jerry Healys and the Al Glenns (have
you ever seen a more ridiculous photo than the one on the first
page?) But Dale Rott is more than equal to the task. His
eccentricities will live on immortal in the annals of Bethel
College.
We really don't need to be wasting your time or ours explaining
why the Banking Window is an absurdity. For instance, we
snapped this candid shot as one dumbounded student tried to
explain the difference between a one and a five dollar bill. At
the other window, a seasoned Banking Window veteran offers
his ten fingers in substitution for the broken abacus.
You've got to wonder what the 1977 freshmen are going to think
when they realize this is the New New Dorm. On second
thought, you've got to wonder what the 1987 freshmen are
going to think. But an incoming freshman will no longer have to
face 22 to a showerhead. You just never know where a creative
use of space will get you.
Take this photo for what it's worth. We did, but we printed it
anyway. No Bethel absurdity page is complete without the
Clarion staff, replete with a hooded Dan Erickson posing for the
absent David Shelley. Zzzzzzzzzz.
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Arts Calendar
Visual Art
Feb. 18-28 Painting is the Object, Michael Mactavish and
Robert Patrick, West Bank Union Gallery, U. of M.
Feb. 18-28 Judy Blain, paintings, Artisan's World, 2274 Como
Ave.
Feb. 18-28 Doug Luo, watercolors, Suzanne Kohn Gallery,
1690 Grand Ave.
Music
Feb. 19, 26 The Passion According to St. Matthew, J.S. Bach,
Mn. Opera Company at O'Shaughnessy
Auditorium (221-0256)
Feb. 28 An Evening with Tchaikovsky, 8 p.m. Orchestra
hall. Tickets at Daytons and Orchestra Hall.
Feb. 19 P.D.O. Bach, Orchestra Hall.
Theatre
Feb. 18-28 Vanities; Anything Goes; I Do, I Do, Chanhassen
Dinner Theatre (474-4181)
Feb. 18-28 The Good Doctor, Friars/ Downtown Dinner
theatre (332-4474).
Feb. 18- Steambath, Theatre-In-The-Round
March 13
Dance
Feb. 19 Paul Taylor Dance Co., Northrup (373-2345)
March 3 Bayanihan Philippine Dance Co., Northrup
(373-2345)
March 13 San Francisco Ballet, Northrup (373-2345)
March 13 Osipov Balalaika Orchestra with Stars of the
Bolshoi Ballet and Opera, Northrup
Special Events
March 8-12 A Matter of Gravity with Katharine Hepburn at St.
Paul Civic Center (333-8883)
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Network: insult to intelligence
by Dawn Hart
Claims that "TV will never be
the same" prodded The Clarion to
view the "monumental" Network.
We cannot allow such an atrocity
to go on making such grandiose
claims which hold no water. Why
Network has been nominated for
ten Academy Awards boggles our
minds, insults our intelligence
and deflates our expectations of
American cinema.
Network is the story of UBS, a
competing television network,
presumably on the same level as
ABC, CBS and NBC. The goal of
UBS centers around the National
Public Ratings and the race for
the number one spot.
Paddy Chayefsky, screenwrit-er,
seems to be attempting to
glue numerous subplots into one
cohesive plot. All he ends up with
are sticky globs of unrelated
story lines.
Gene Shalit (Ladies Home
Journal, February 1977) echoes
these sentiments as he states
that, "Chayefsky seems to be
hitting about six typewriters at
once as he concocts a conglom-erate
of plots that zap the Arabs,
Patty Hearst, big business, sex,
black revolutionaries, television
news, career women and the
public."
Because he tries to combine so
many unrelated plots (that could
stand alone), he succeeds in
subverting each one. In doing so,
The Children's Theatre
Company is seeking volunteer
ushers for their public per-formances
for weekend days
and evenings. Complimentary
tickets are available for this
service. If you are interested
please contact:
Adine Thoreen, House Man-ager
874-0500 Ext. 29
by Jim Torgerson
Two Bethel students, Dave
Johnson and Gary Setterberg,
accompanied by Dr. John Lawyer
of Bethel's Political Science
Department, participated in the
National Association of Evan-gelicals
Federal Seminar Jan. 31 -
Feb. 4 in Washington D.C.
They studied Christian influ-ence
on U.S. government through
briefing sessions, visits to vari-ous
places, and interaction with
government officials.
A number of speakers de-scribed
their experiences in gov-ernment.
Some of the people that
spoke to them were: Senator
Mark Hatfield; Supreme Court
Justice William H. Rehnquist;
Congressman Don L. Bonker;
Congressman John B. Anderson;
Peace Corps Director John Del-lenback;
a panel of people from
the press including Edward D.
Plowman, News Editor of Chris-tianity
Today; Sojourners Editor
Wes Michelson; and Chuck Col-he
produces a "schizophrenic
farce that doesn't know where it's
going and gets lost not getting
there." (Shalit)
The overriding theme present-ed
(television's control of the
American public) gets lost some-where
between pages 10 and 14.
If all the unsavory words
uttered in Network were deleted,
Chayefsky would be left with a
gaunt skeleton of a script. The
script is not conducive to charac-ter
development, adequate pac-ing
or picturesque blocking.
As far as character develop-ment
is concerned, the actors
managed to stereotype their
by Dan Anderson
As I sit down to write this
article, temperatures are climbing
higher, snowdrifts are shrinking
lower, and talk of Florida has
reached even the most remote
corners of the LRC. BUT WAIT!
Before we give up on winter
altogether, we must have our
annual tribute to that cold cloak
that covers our countryside,
bringing beauty and wintery
recreation. This tribute is, of
course, known as SNO DAZE,
and snow or no snow the word is
still go for next weekend, Febru-ary
25th and 26th.
It all begins Friday with a
Frankie Avalon movie, "Ski Par-ty."
There will be no admission
charge, and it will begin at 8 p.m.
in the gymnasium.
Saturday will consist of out-door
activities, including the
traditional polar-bear dip, a cross
country ski race, tubing on Mt.
Zion, and a snow sculpture
contest. These are, of course,
contingent upon weather condi-son,
former White House aide.
Dr. Lawyer said that what
impressed him the most was the
breadth of the views represented.
He said, "The speakers covered a
wide expanse of government
positions.
"There were people from each
branch of government and also
the press. The people that talked
were from top level decision-making
positions on down. Also,
the speakers had widely differing
Christian philosophies that
helped make the seminar inter-esting,"
he said.
The three of them were able to
meet privately with several gov-ernment
officials. Johnson said,
"It was a real advantage to have
Dr. Lawyer as our faculty advisor.
His experience in Washington
made it possible for us to see
people and things that would
have been impossible without
him."
Dr. Lawyer said, "It was most
valuable seeing different people
at work and listening as they
characters even more than the
script dictated. Peter Finch and
William Holden were, at times,
on the brink of a character
discovery. However, Faye Dun-away
and crew were disasters.
Although Network lacked in
many areas, a few humorous
scenarios, some clever staging
gimmicks and a few well-conceived
character bits did
shine through. Basically, though,
in attempting to surgically dis-sect
television, Network has,
instead, performed a surgical
butchering job that slits cinema
open and reveals its inner weak-nesses.
tions and may have to be
cancelled. If this is the case,
there will be a snowflake hunt
where participants will be award-ed
prizes for finding any remain-ing
snow.
Saturday night should prove to
be the highlight of SNO-DAZE.
The evening will begin with a
buffet dinner (all you can eat) at 6
p.m. in the gymnasium, with
seating at round tables under a
candlelight atmosphere. Follow-ing
the dinner, a stage will be
filled with our own Bethel talent
in a SNO-DAZE production called
"SNOW-BIZ." There will be re-served
seating for the dinner, and
tickets will be sold Monday, the
21st, through Wednesday, the
23rd. Ticket prices are $3.25,
$2.75 with SAC, and meal cards
may be used. We would like to
stress just how to dress. This will
be a semi-formal affair, which
means no jeans.
From "Ski Party" to "SNOW-BIZ"
it will be a busy, fun-filled
weekend, and we hope that most
students will participate.
explained the problems of their
jobs and Christianity." Dave
added that he was impressed by
the speaker's commitment to
God. "They are in positions of
power but their faith and commit-ment
to the Lord really came
out."
Gary said the event that
impressed him the most was the
speech Chuck Colson made the
final evening they were there. "He
told us how he had been in
power," Gary recalled, "and then
had lost all of his power. He
explained to us that political
power is nothing at all compared
to the power we have through
Jesus Christ.
"Colson reminded us that
political power is very transitory
and that we have greater power
within us because of Jesus
Christ," he added.
Dr. Lawyer said that the
seminar will probably be repeated
again next year and that Bethel
would send some students.
Sno-Daze to provide
`fun-filled weekend'
Christian influence in government
studied at recent NAE seminar
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squeeze past Augies
To the relief of the journalism department, I don't identify myself
with journalism per se. I'm sure it comes as no surprise to those of you
who have suffered through my past efforts in this publication, but I've
never even come close to taking a journalism course.
Be that as it may, I do have one thing in common with your
everyday, garden variety journalism purist. That is a rapacious appetite
for the language and a sometimes tactless intolerance for the
prostitution and misuse of that language.
I simply can't help but cringe when I heard the ever popular but never
correct, "irregardless" or the now hackneyed "paranoid." The former is
nothing more than a non-word and the latter is used to describe a
continuum of emotions ranging from anxiety to anger.
Even worse though, are the terms I hear used around Bethel that
constitute nothing sort of logic in effigy when used in their most
popular context.
The first one is the word "generalization." It has always been a
puzzling phenomena to me that any time anyone makes a
generalization in an argument, someone just on the fringe of the fray
always has to blurt out effusively, "But that's a generalization!!"
After this astute observation everyone generally (oops, there's one
of those nasty little varmits right now) nods their head in agreement
and quite summarily discounts the argument as being invalid. My
answer to this proud proclamation is always, "So what?" Obviously
the little sharpie who correctly identified your point is working under
the premise that all generalizations are just short of blasphemy.
I beg to differ. Generalizations are not inherently bad. Not only are
they a necessary tool for the organization of data, but generalizations
are also stark naked logic. If a student goes to the banking window five
times and five times he hears something like, "I don't care if you do
have a cancelled check, you haven't paid for second semester," or the
amusing, "We seem to have lost any record of your ever having
attended Bethel," he has no choice but to conclude that the
organization of the Bethel business office is less than efficient. Not
only has he concluded this via generalization, but in this case, he is
undoubtedly correct. The only time the generalization would be bad is
if one concluded that every experience with the banking window would
be ludicrous just because most encounters with the banking window
are, or if one failed to change his opinion in light of new data.
Another example of the profanation of our language is the usage of
the word "discrimination." Just as "generalization," discrimination is
many times assumed to be pernicious.
A good example is an argument I was having with a friend of mine a
few months ago. We were talYng about the injustices of the food card
system and how women are always stuck with cards at the end of the
year and so are forced to sell them for less than they are worth. It has
always been my position that if we all have to buy a minimum of food
cards that women should have to buy less than men. My friend cried
"Discrimination!" and I agree with her.
It is discrimination but it is fair discrimination. Women should have
to buy less food cards for the same reason that cars pay less highway
tax than do trucks. Just as a two ton car that is driven maybe 30 miles
a day doesn't put as much wear and tear on the road as a 20 ton semi
that travels 500 miles a day, a 125 pound woman is not going to eat as
much as a 185 pound man.
Discrimination, in the connotative definition of the word, is hateful.
But our overusage of the word itself has been taken to an absurd and
infinite degree in this country. We have got to start shooting for what
is fair and not the mythical and ethereal "equality" that we are
obsessed with.
Last but not least is the ultimate cop out, "It's the Lord's will." This
is used when one is too afraid to tell another person what he is feeling
so he simply blames it on God.
In its popular form it is manifested in the dating relationship. I've
never heard the line myself but more than one "Dear John" or "Dear
Mary" speech has started with, "I don't feel it is the Lord's will that
we . .." Instead of telling the person that one's feelings have changed,
one can rather conveniently hide behind the Lord's will and
subsequently absolve self of any responsibility for the ensuing hurt
feelings.
by Linda Dowden
During the past week the
Bethel women's basketball team
hosted two games. In the first
game, on Saturday afternoon,
they played Concordia-St. Paul
and won 62 to 41. On Monday
night they played Augsburg and
also won by a score of 45 to 41.
Against Concordia they took an
early lead in the first half and held
it through the whole game to win.
Gail Anderson was the highest
scorer for the game with 15
points.
In the game against Augsburg
on Monday night the Bethel girls
started with a big lead early in the
half and were able to hold on to it
through halftime. They did a
good job defensively and held the
Augies' scoring down to a
minimum.
The half time score was Bethel
24, Augies 9. This marked a 15
point difference and the widest
margin between teams.
Beginning in the second half,
all the Bethel team members had
a chance to play in the game, as
they maintained their big lead.
Augsburg began to catch up in
by Greg Wilcox
Senioritis or panic, call it what
you want, is when the end of your
college experience is only a few
short months away and the
inevitable "what are you going to
do when you get out" becomes all
too real.
For some seniors graduation
from Bethel does not mean the
end of school, as some type of
post-graduate work lies ahead.
But for others, graduation means
venturing into that "real" world
that lies somewhere outside the
hallowed halls of Bethel.
Being one of those whose
future does not include grad
school, I decided to visit Paul
Redin, head of Bethel's place-ment
office. (After four years I too
was wondering if there really was
anything you could do with a
history major.)
Not being one to beat around
the bush I asked Paul Redin what
he thought he could do for me.
His answer was just as staight-forward.
"Not a thing." Instead,
he talked about what I would have
to do for myself.
the second half with about eight
minutes left to be played in the
game. In the next five minutes the
Augies brought the score to
within one point of the Royals
lead.
Bethel score the next two
points and a time out was called
with 2:31 minutes left with a
score of Bethel 42, Augsburg 39.
Bethel held Augsburg score-less
until less than one minute
left. One of the Augsburg girls hit
from outside the key, bringing
the score back to a one point lead
for Bethel.
Janet Reynolds was fouled
with 27 seconds left and made
free throw. Cindi Ramm was
fouled seconds later and scored
two more points with three
seconds left to bring the final
score to 45-41.
Cindi Martin and Cathy Olson
were high scorers with 12 and 10
points respectively.
The last games of the season
for the Bethel women will be this
weekend when they participate in
the State-District tournament to
be held at Concordia-St. Paul.
The season record for the team
is 6 wins and 10 losses.
Know yourself, be honest in
your evaluation of yourself. This
was the advice I was given.
Take out a piece of paper and
write down your particular skills
and abilities. Plan out where you
want to be in five years and set
some goals. Organize yourself.
Identify areas that interest you
and set out what values you hold.
All these are important and
should be considered when
choosing a career.
The placement office is set up
Records go
in coed
track meet
by Bruce Olsen
Six Bethel records were broken
and two fieldhouse records
smashed as the Bethel track team
competed in a coed track meet.
-The Feb. 12 meet at St. Olaf also
fielded teams from the University
of Wisconsin at River Falls and
Northwestern College of St. Paul.
For the men, Larry Caldwell
broke the school record in the
mile run with a time of 4:18.7.
His time also qualified him to
compete in the NAIA Nationals.
Other school records were by
Curt Brown in the 600 yard run
(1 :13.5), and the mile relay team
of Graydon Held, Kevin Shenk,
Curt Brown, and Gene Blair
(3:30.8).
Blair also took two first place
finishes in the 300 yard dash
(32.7) and the 440 yard dash
(52.1).
Long jumper Rick Knopf also
took a first place ribbon with a
jump of 21'6".
The best effort for the women's
squad was turned in by freshman
Jan Engel in the shot put. She set
a new fieldhouse record with a
toss of 35'6".
Bobbi Hersch broke two Bethel
records in the long jump and the
300 yard dash.
Hersch recorded a 16'10" effort
in the long jump, good enough
for second place. Her 300 yard
dash time of 41 seconds gave her
a fourth place finish.
First place finishes for the
women included a 4'9" high jump
by sophomore Carol Anderson.
Cheryl Staurseth also recorded a
first place finish with a 9.5 time in
the 60 yard hurdles.
As a team, the Bethel men
finished second to St. Olaf with a
score of 52.5. The women tallied
a third place finish behind St.
Olaf and River Falls.
to aid students and they are
encouraged to make an appoint-ment.
This service is by no means
for seniors only, as underclass-men
are also encouraged in come
in
For those seniors who have
made an art out of procrastina-tion,
time is running out. If you
have not made an appointment
yet, expect to be contacted by the
placement office in the next few
weeks.
Advice available for
panic-stricken seniors
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Bethel basketbaUers prepare to recoup disastrous weekend.
Cagers work hard but reap no
rewa rds; drop pair over weekend
Student sweeps lake after IM broomball game.
Martin scratches head in rare moment of frustration.
Scores 39 vs. Carleton
Cindy Martin leads
women to victory
by Bruce Olsen
"If there is a low point in the
season, this has to be it,"
lamented Coach Roger Davis
after his team had lost both ends
of last weekend's doubleheader.
The Royal cagers lost to North-western
College of Iowa on
Friday and Westmar College on
Saturday.
The Royals started off quickly
against Northwestern, playing
aggressive basketball at both
ends of the court. But they were a
little too aggressive for the
referees and were soon in foul
trouble. Northwestern found
themselves in the bonus situation
with only six minutes gone in the
game.
Besides being in foul trouble,
Bethel also faced a very good Red
by Bruce Olsen
Forfeits and a pin by heavy-weight
Jeff Zitzloff led the Bethel
wrestlers to an easy 30-17 victory
over Hamline University last
Friday night. The Pipers fielded
only five wrestlers, as the Royals
won four matches by forfeit.
The match started off very
quickly with a double forfeit in
the 118 pound class. Two more
forfeits by Hamline at 126 and 134
gave Bethel a quick 12-0 lead.
The first match of the night
finally came in the 142 pound
weight class, with both teams
finding a wrestler at that weight.
For the fans who came five
minutes late, it was somewhat
surprising to see that they had
missed nearly half of the meet.
Lonnie Holmgren was defeated
in his match at 142 to cut the
Royal's lead to seven. But
another Hamline forfeit at 150 to
Royal wrestler Mike Reeves gave
Probes' and 'Grunt' lead IM open league
by Gayle Trollinger
When was the last time you
saw a basketball player score 39
points in one game? Cindy
Martin, captain of the women's
basketball team, did just that as
the team beat Carleton 63-55 on
Feb. 4.
Martin, a junior from Lisbon,
Iowa, has played competitive
basketball since she was a
freshman in high school. She
completed two years on the JV
team and two on the varsity team.
She has played three years for
Bethel and has started each year.
In Iowa, a six-person game is
played, while five person teams
are floored in Minnesota. Cindy
reflected on its effect: "I have
had much less experience in
defense so I obviously prefer
playing offense.
Iowa coaches stressed funda-mentals,
Martin reflected. "It was
a good experience. I feel I have a
better grasp of the fundamentals
than other girls." Cindy is also
left-handed and uses it to an
advantage. "It helps a lot — no
one expects people to go to the
left and that's all I do."
This year's team has a heavier
schedule than years before, ac-cording
to Martin. "We have a
good team, but we're just not
by Debbie Valder
Intramural action began again
last week with open league
basketball and broomball teams.
In basketball the Big Apples
were steam rolled 64-32 by the
Probes, Gigs and Dozers, who
weren't nearly so tan but had
much more skill.
True Grunt made a strong
second half comeback to out-score
the Pink Panthers 57-53. Al
Jones and Mark Stevens were
high scorers for True Grunt with
22 and 18 respectively, but the
key to this game was Pink
Panther Bob Merritt's four fouls
in the first half leaving Loren
Helm to carry most of the load for
the Panthers.
Jay Alvin's off-rebound baskets
and Kim Walker's 16 points killed
the No Names 59-39.
eight
playing up to our potential. We'll
play a good half than we don't
look too good. We can't get it all
together."
Cindy cites defense as one
weak area. "We do too much
scrambling. Overall, we need to
be quicker and our passes don't
move like they should."
Despite its weaknesses the
team is recognized as having
great potential. One referee said
Bethel is the team of the future.
Being the captain of the team
puts some extra pressures on
Cindy. "I feel like I have to set an
example and have to make extra
time available to talk to team-mates."
She has a full schedule as she
has a P.E./Elem. Ed. double
major. She also has plans to get
her coaching certificate. She
sews most of her own clothes
and plays the piano. Softball
practice will begin soon so Cindy
will begin getting her arm ready
for the spring campaign as
pitcher.
"I have always wanted to play
basketball. I like the competition
and I like showing that I can be a
girl and still play well." With 39
points in one game she has
definitely shown her playing
ability.
Young and Restless versus
Charlie's Angels was a close
game which see-sawed the first
ten minutes. Kevin Hallstrom led
a second half comeback for the
Young and Restless but Charlie's
Angels made them just a little too
restless with balanced teamwork
and won 47-39.
In other games Silly Goosers
beat El Laser on the Strength of
Jeff Berglund's 14 points and
Wink's Finks over came Upper
New Volta 53-44.
Broomball is just getting under
way with six more games to be
played if the weather holds. The
Svensonians lead the league now
with two wins, no losses.
The Razzies, Schut's, and
Gardners are an even 1-1. The
Divet's are 0-1 and Stevie's
Wonders really need to see light
to improve their 0-2 standing.
Raider squad. "They shot very
well and were very disciplined,"
said Davis.
Northwestern finished the
game with a 52 percent shooting
mark from the floor, compared to
37 percent for the Royals. The
final score was 76-58,
High scorer in the game was
freshman Dave Blanchard with
14, followed by Scott Wilson with
11 and Doug Erickson with 10.
Wilson also added 12 rebounds
for the night.
The following afternoon
brought the Royals to LeMars,
Iowa to face more of the same
from Westmar College. Bethel
started very slowly, missing
many easy shots early in the
game. The defense also fell
through, as Westmar jumped off
to a quick lead.
Davis had this to say about the
game: "If we would have made
those shots early in the game, we
probably would have won. But
once they got a lead, they just
seemed to take off on us. They
remained intense, and we didn't."
Will Healy finished as high
scorer for the Royals with 19
points. He was followed by Curt
Oslin with 14 and Blanchard with
12. Junior Tom Koenigsberg
finished with 15 rebounds in the
94-76 loss.
The two losses put the Royal's
conference record at 2-5. Overall
the Bethel cagers are 8-14.
Tonight at 7:30 p.m. the
Royals will entertain Sioux Falls
College. On Saturday afternoon
we will host a game against
Yankton College starting at 2:30
p.m. These two games will be the
last home games of the season
for the Royal b-ballers.
Bethel a commanding 18-5 lead.
At 158, Greg Kaihoi lost a close
6-3 decision to close Bethel's
lead to 10 points. Kaihoi made a
good comeback in the second
period, as he scored all three of
his points. But he tired in the
third period and lost on a reversal
to the Piper grappler.
The two teams traded forfeits
at the 167 and 177 weight classes
to put the score at 24-14.
In the next match, Barrett
Holmgren was stopped by a score
of 6-0. The 190 pound wrestler
never managed to hold control
over his opponent long enough to
score any points.
Jeff Zitzloff pinned his man
with three seconds left in the
second period in what was
perhaps the most exciting match
of the evening. "Zitz" held a 3-0
lead at the time of his pin.
Zitzloff, who normally wrestles
in the 177 pound weight class,
was filling in for the injured Gary
Peterson. Peterson, who has
been Bethel's most consistent
wrestler this year, hurt his ankle
earlier in the week in practice. He
is expected to wrestle in the
conference meet tomorrow.
The final match of the season
will be tomorrow for the Tri-State
Conference championship. West-mar
College of LeMars, Iowa is
the host school and is expected
to win the meet. The Royals
should have a good shot at
second place. The meet will
begin at 10 a.m.
Forfeits and Zitzlof pin aid
grapplers in victory over Hamline

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Advising system standards to be set
Dr. Glenn will be one of five Faculty members to speak on Biblical interpretation.
Bethel purchases Fountain Terrace apt's
Profs to expound on
hermeneutics next week
by Diana Gonzalez
"The Bible Department has felt
that basic to our discussing and
thinking -about our faith around
the campus is the interpretation
of scripture," said Jim Spickel-mier.
During the week of February 21
to February 25, the Department of
Biblical and Theological Studies
will be presenting a chapel series
on Biblical hermeneutics.
"To help students understand
what hermeneutics entails, five
members of our department are
going to take one chapel each to
discuss how to go about interp-reting
the Bible," said Dr. Al
Glenn.
On Monday, Dr. Walter Wessel
will begin this chapel series by
discussing the necessity of re-translating
the Bible. Dr. Wessel
has had experience in translating
part of the New Testament for the
New International Version.
Dr. John Piper will speak the
following day on interpreting the
expository literature of the New
Testament.
"Different parts of the Bible
have to be interpreted in different
ways," said Dr. Glenn. "There are
many different genres in the
Bible. You can't use the same
type of interpretation for different
types of literature. On Wednes-day,
Dr. Stein is going to take a
specific example of New Testa-ment
literature, a parable, and
show how to go about interpret-ing
it."
For the fourth chapel talk of
this series, Dr. Art Lewis will
discuss the interpretation of
Messianic prophesy as an exam-ple
of Old Testament hermeneu-tics.
Dr. Glenn commented that on
Friday he will "show how a
systematic theologian interprets
the Bible. As a systematic
theologian, I have to deal with the
entire Bible. I will try to tie all the
previous chapel sessions togeth-er
and discuss how it relates to
us today.
" "We realize that this is going to
be serious subject matter. Our
purpose is not to do the typical
sermonic kind of chapel presen-tation,
but to show students how
to interpret the Bible," com-mented
Dr. Glenn.
Dr. Glenn added that herme-neutics
is a vital issue for
Christians today since the oppos-ing
viewpoints Christians hold on
various issues stem from how
they approach Biblical herme-neutics.
by David Shelley
"The real key to advising is
knowing the curriculum well,"
said Dwight Jessup, director of
academic affairs, concerning aca-demic
advisers.
At present the only policy
governing the duties of advisers
is an advising manual which
basically covers requirements for
graduation within each concen-tration.
The academic policies commit-tee
is currently considering a
possible standard for advisers.
"The basic requirement for
advisers is just to meet with the
students before registration
time," Jessup said. "The adviser
is involved a little more with
students in special programs.
"We would like all the advisers
to have good personal relation-ships
with each advisee," he
stated, "but curriculum is the real
responsibility. Some do a great
job and we wish some would do a
little bit more.
"I'm sure the system can be
improved," Jessup added, "but it
is hard to govern."
Advisers are notified if an
advisee gets a mid-term note for
doing D or N work up to that
point. They are also notified to
post specific times for office
hours about two weeks prior to
registration.
All full-time and a few part-time
faculty members are expect-ed
to serve as advisers.
Tuition charges at Bethel Col-lege
next year will reflect the
rising costs that seem to be a way
of life for American residents and
households. Students will pay
$300 per college course for the
1977-78 year according to a
statement released by the Dean's
Office. This will mean a total
annual increase of $180 for those
students carrying the normal
total of nine courses per acade-mic
year.
The tuition increase is necessi-tated
by higher college operating
costs and allows the college to
keep pace with rising expendi-tures
and provide minimal in-creases
for faculty-staff salaries.
An increase in the student
financial aid funds provided by
Some concentrations, such as
foreign language, have fewer
advisees and others such as
business, have more. "The load is
evened out somewhat by adding
freshmen," Jessup said.
"We also have a few advising
who aren't faculty, for instance
Jill Newcomer, music secretary,"
he stated. "There have been times
when we've used seniors as
advisers, if they knew the curricu-lum
well."
Jessup said that one check on
advisers is in the clearing of
seniors for graduation, which is
handled by Paul Reasoner of the
registrar's office. "He is kind of
an adviser's adviser," Jessup
said, "but again, that only
involves curriculum."
the college is also being made
and will be commensurate with
the tuition increase.
Any changes in special instruc-tional
fees, such as private music
lessons, graduation fees, and
student teaching fees, have yet to
be announced. The same is true
of campus housing costs where
some increase is anticipated, but
developments are still pending.
Several housing options are likely
to be available. Announcements
about these costs are anticipated
within the next four to six weeks.
The minimum required food
coupon purchases per regular
term (fall and spring) will remain
at $100 for Snelling campus
residence and $225 for Arden
Hills residence.
Annual tuition rate
increases $180 per year
by Nancy Naumenko
The problem of married student
housing at Bethel is not a new
one and steps have been taken to
remedy the situation. A set of
apartments has recently been
purchased for the accommoda-tion
of married students.
"Fountain Terrace", which is
located right across 35W and just
north of County Road E2, con-tains
72 unfurnished apartments
and 39 garages. There are 70
two-bedroom, 1 single bedroom,
and 1 three-bedroom suites.
At the present Bethel holds no
accommodation for married stu-dents.
There are 123 apartments
at the Seminary but only in rare
cases are college students per-mitted
housing there.
Present rates at Fountain Ter-race
vary from $175 to $207.50 per
month, but Paul Drake, director
of auxiliary enterprises, declined
to comment on future Bethel
rates, as this information is yet
pending.
When questioned whether the
goal of this project would be
similar to that of the food service,
in that it would be profit-making,
Mr. Drake replied "I don't think
so."
It seems there would be no
difficulty in filling the apart-ments.
According to a survey by
Dr. Mack Nettleton, director of
student affairs, there are current-ly
47 married seminary couples
and 40 married Bethel College
couples who "might be interest-ed"
in leasing these apartments.
Leasing is presently on a
month-to-month basis with the
present renters and will continue
this way until August 1. It is still
uncertain as to leasing arrange-ments
following that date.
Marilyn Starr, director of hous-ing,
stated, "Good business
would say that you would have to
have a 12-month lease and
students are notorious for want-ing
a 9-month lease. So, there are
going to be some problems."
The college is not presently
contemplating any bus service to
and from the complex.
The original reason for the
purchase of the apartments
sprung from the dire need of the
seminary for additional housing.
on the inside
Response to racism,
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p. 4
Bethel absurdities,
P. 5
Social climate critiqued;
investigation encouraged
It is safe to say that a large segment of the Bethel population is
disappointed with the social climate here on campus. This fact was
underscored in last week's Clarion, when an unofficial survey of
student opinion demonstrated an almost unanimously negative
response to on-campus activities (or lack of such activities).
The brunt of the blame for the social aridity of Bethel is placed upon
the campus coordinators. As again seen in the survey, students feel
that the campus coordinators have fallen short of their responsibility
in not providing a fuller, more well-rounded slate of activities.
This groundswell of student opinion is an indication of the
importance of the campus coordinators at Bethel. These two people
are directly responsible for the social climate of a school of 1726
students. The difficulties in such a job are obvious. Trying to please all
1726 individuals at least some of the time is an enormous task.
But these difficulties do not hide the face that this year's social
climate at Bethel has been a veritable desert. And the question that
must be answered is . . . why? Is the problem due to this year's
failures? Or is it due to a lack of funds, or to the fact that the campus
coordinators are only part-time workers?
We don't have the answers now, but we need them before next year,
when we will have around 100 more students. It's up to the Student
Senate to investigate this solution immediately and arrive at some
definite answers and solutions.
President, editor respond
to Bethel racial problems
In response to the racial slurs made on Valentine's Day, we are
overcome with a combination of repulsion and sadness. This
deplorable act is sickening, especially in this "Christian" college.
For some individuals, this incident brings a deep hurt; for us, a
sense of embarrassment and righteous anger.
This blatantly racist action is shocking, but our response is not
limited to this incident. What about the subtlely insidiuos racism
that penetrates much of Bethel and, in fact, America as a whole?
Some of this is due to naivete and some to white-black tensions in
the cities. But considering Christ's ethical pronouncements on love
for all, and considering Christ's relationship with minorities such
as the Samaritans and women, racism of any sort is inexcusable for
Christians.
We are not just talking about institutionalized racism; we are
talking about a racism of individuals, an undercurrent of prejudice
that manifests itself in our stereotypes, fears, jokes, etc. And thus
our response must be, with the aid of the Holy Spirit, to examine
our lives, our beliefs and our actions. We want to isolate and attack
those aspects of our life that do not meet Christ's standards of love
and justice for all.
The most tragic outcome of this incident would be for our
response to be a short-lived flaring of emotion (accompanied by a
dose of proud piety) with no long-ierm effect. Plans begun in
January for a Minorities Week will culminate March 7-11. Our goal
is to continue building toward this event. We pray that next month
will prove to be an important step for individuals and the institution
in learning about love and justice. And we hope that the Bethel
community will strongly support and become involved in this
effort.
Pete Taylor, president, Student Association
Bill Trollinger, editor, Clarion
UorifOkr
the Clarion Vol. 52, No. 15
The Clarion is published
weekly by the students of
Bethel College.
Bill Trollinger editor
Laura Alden news editor
Mary Norton production editor
David Shelley copy editor
Peter Blomquist photo editor
Dawn Hart arts editor
Bruce Olsen sports editor
Arlan Swanson business manager
Letters to the editor should be
sent to p.o . 91 by the Sunday
preceding publication.
letters to
the editor
Suto speaks
Dear Editor:
There I was picking through the
ancient ruins of what used to be
known as St. Paul (or was it
Minneapolis) when this horrible
noise began emanating from the
throggletugger and before I knew
it here I was. So here I am stuck
in the 20th century, my time
machine broken, and no way to
fix it in this archaic era!
I should never have wandered
away from the class, especially in
a restricted area. But then, the
professor always encourages ini-tiative
and I was tired of hearing
all those lectures about the
American civilization and its
decline. If you've heard about the
energy waste once, you've heard
it a quantum of times, right?
Anyway, I managed to ride the
kringrump and get the machine
under control only to find that I
had arrived in a small room
labeled "Campus Coordinator". I
can assure you that Karen and
Dan were as surprised to see me
as I was to be there. But they
soon overcame this and were very
sensitive and concerned over my
problem. I guess they're just that
kind of people. They came up
with all sorts of imaginative ideas
as to what I could do to make a
living here and possibly fix the
machine but I could see that it
was futile. Here I am and here I'll
stay.
Does anyone know how to fix a
throggletugger?
Suto Nimulus
(Rick Reed)
Students appalled
Dear Editor:
We were appalled and sickened
during chapel on Monday. Gene
Blair's Valentine message left us
ashamed. Perhaps some day this
"Christian Community" will live
up to its Christian commitment
and rise above race, sex and
creed, and love as Christ taught
us to.
Mary Nelson
Julie Peterson
Sheryl Tengwall
We're sorry
Dear Editor:
Racism is antithetical to Chris-tianity,
insulting to intelligence
and destructive to community.
But, as seen in last Monday's
chapel, racism exists at Bethel.
We are disappointed in the
anonymous individuals who have
made a sham of Bethel's claims
to Christian commitment, educa-tional
ideals and communal
bonds. We have never imagined
Bethel to be an idyllic place of
perfection, but we do expect
respect for and acceptance of
individuals.
To those who have been hurt:
we're sorry.
Sincerely,
Laura Alden Gayle Trollinger
Marti Burger Jennifer Wilkens
Faculty bill of rights
(from the file of Al Glenn)
Every instructor shall have the right to:
1. Choose those students who will be allowed to enroll in his
courses.
2. Drop any student within the first three weeks without the
student's permission.
3. Have three unexcused absences from lectures each quarter.
4. Take occasional naps during classroom discussions.
5. Munch on candy bars and drink Cokes during lectures.
6. Absent himself from lectures for important duties such as
plugging parking meters.
7. Arrive late for lectures if he has a legitimate excuse such as
"oversleeping."
8. Teach only those courses that motivate him and are relevant.
9. Drop courses at mid-quarter if student motivation and interest
levels are not satisfactory.
10. Write evaluations on each student and publish them at the end
of the quarter.
11. Read the student newspaper and write letters during class
discussions.
12. Begin lectures the seventh week of the course and complete the
entire quarter's work in the last three weeks.
13. Show up once every three weeks and take issue with all points
raised regarding material covered in the classes he missed.
14. Call students at any time of night to discuss their performance
on assignments.
15. Withhold -course requirements from students until Dead Week
(the week prior to Final Week).
16. Ask students if there was "anything" important in the
assignments the instructor failed to read or grade.
17. Burst into tears during instructor-student conferences when all
other tactics fail.
18. Lecture on the American political situation no matter what the
course title is.
19. Be forgiven for poor lectures if he can provide a legitimate
excuse such as "sick relative" or a "night on the town."
20. Leave class one week before the end of the quarter because he
has a ride to Ft. Lauderdale.
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Elizabeth Elliot Leitch will be the 1977 commencement speaker
Bethel regent Austin Chapman
American Studies
program to be continued
Leitch,
Olson
to speak at
graduation
According to the commence-ment
committee, Elizabeth Elliot
Leitch will bring the 1977 com-mencement
address on May 22.
Virgil Olson has been selected to
speak at the morning baccaulaur-eate
service.
Dr. Olson will center his
remarks on what Bethel students
have been given. Mrs. Leitch,
author, public speaker and mis-sionary,
will speak on what will
be required of Bethel graduates.
Text for the message is Luke
12:48.
The committee is presently
working with the subjects of
student speakers and the pro-gram
itself. Input from students
is encouraged. (Contact Pete
Taylor or Gayle Trollinger.)
by Greg Smith
Statistics show that today
there are more college students
enrolled in graduate psychology
than there are practicing psychol-ogists.
Of the 1740 students at
Bethel College, 135 are majors in
psychology. What possible
forces and implications adjoin
the surge of interest in this field?
Dr. Steve McNeel, professor of
psychology at Bethel College,
suggests that this nation-wide
interest may be due to a growing
concern for self-understanding
and self-fulfillment on the part of
many Americans. Senior psychol-ogy
major Jeff McHenry details it
as a people-oriented desire for
service. Other motivations are
certainly involved as well.
One pivotal concern of those
interested in psychology is the
condition of the job market. As
greater numbers of psychology
majors enter the market, the
threat of job scarcity increases.
Dr. McNeel reacts to this influx
with optimism.
The skills afforded the psychol-ogy
major — research and
counseling — are applicable to
teaching, private practice, per-sonal
therapy, business, govern-ment
and other occupations as
well. He sees teaching in large
research-oriented state universi-ties
as the only relatively closed
field; but other areas, especially
therapy, are in his opinion wide
open.
According to McNeel, Chris-tians
may experience some ad-vantage
over non-Christians in
obtaining employment in psy-chology.
For example, there
seems to be a real scarcity of well
trained Christian counselors.
What is the stand of the church
in connection with this surge of
interest in psychology?
The so-called dichotomy of
religion and psychology is a false
dichotomy; it would suggest a
division of the world and scrip-ture,
said McNeel. "This is not
the case however," he continued,
"for the Bible seems to empha-size
strongly both man's respon-sibility
and God's sovereignty."
(e.g. Phil. 2:13)
Many fundamentalists, and
even conservative evangelicals,
have long stood against an
integration of psychology and the
church. Mental illnesses have
been continuously referred to
man's sinful nature and been
dealt with on that basis. Essen-tially
the church has sometimes
in the past disregarded the social
and psychological influences on
men's spiritual lives.
It is fact that distorted child-hood
relationships are often
responsible for many psychologi-cal
irregularities. Unbalanced
parent-child relations give rise to
emotional experiences that result
in varying degrees of insecurity
and neurosis. These in turn often
affect man's relationship with
God.
The church, with its unique
community structure, provides a
solid basis for many preventative
psychiatric methods. As psychic
health is merely one instrument
in God's divine plan, an integra-tion
of preventative psychology
and the parish community would
help resolve the conflicts faced
by individuals in society before
immediate and pressing prob-lems
occur.
Christianity is not an automatic
cure-all, and many psychological
problems cannot be resolved with
that assumption. Yet the integra-tion
of the two can serve as a
vehicle to balance the often harsh
realities of life. (New Catholic
World, March, 1976.)
Bethel in
regent role
by Suzi Wells
Many students may wonder
exactly who or what a regent is.
Regents are people nominated by
a committee set up by the Baptist
General Conference (BGC). They
are elected to serve for a five year
period, and work with the admin-istration
on problems Bethel may
have. The regents volunteer their
free time to Bethel, as they all
have other full-time jobs. One
active regent is Mr. Austin
Chapman of Minneapolis.
Mr. Chapman explained that
the regents serve as a sounding
board to the administration as
well as to other constituents.
Problems concern faculty, stu-dents
and the BGC. Mr. Chapman
serves on the audit committee of
the board. "The board's function
is to establish a policy to provide
overall judging of the source of
the school," he said.
Some problems Mr. Chapman
has to deal with as a regent are
issues concerning the increasing
size of the school, and financial
problems are always considered,
since Bethel is heavily in debt.
Other questions are raised con-cerning
tenure of the faculty, and
generally where Bethel is going in
the future.
Mr. Chapman comes to Bethel
frequently and knows several
students. Meeting students is not
part of his job, but it helps him.
Seeing his job as more than
just a part-time activity, Mr.
Chapman commented, "Being on
the board is challenging, interest-ing,
and gives me an opportunity
to make a contribution."
The Christian College Consor-tium
has announced that the
Consortium American Studies
Program in Washington, D.C.,
will continue as a permanent
program of the Washington-based,
14 member group of
Christian liberal arts colleges.
The decision to continue the
program, begun as an experiment
during the 1976-77 academic
year, was made' by the board of
directors upon recommendation
of Consortium President Gordon
R. Werkema.
According to the Board, the
continuation of the Consortium
American Studies Program is due
to its very successful first year.
The program gives Christian
college students the opportunity
to live, work and study in the
nation's capital, viewing Ameri-can
culture from a Christian
perspective.
In its first year, about 50
students from 15 Christian col-leges
will have lived on Capitol
Hill, served as interns in various
Washington offices and agen-cies,
and studied topics ranging
from the United States Congress
to national priorities and the
United States Economy. Each
topic is taught by experts in the
field, and represents a month of
intensive study. Special attention
is given to the Christian perspec-tive
and alternatives in the area.
Student opinion of the program
has been overwhelmingly posi-tive.
Said Hope DiBlasi, a Hough-ton
College pre-law student, "I
am thrilled with the opportunities
the American Studies Program
has opened to me as a student.
There is absolutely no better
method for learning the compli-cated
and fascinating processes
of our government than to get
directly involved in those pro-cesses,
as we have been allowed
to do through this program."
Added Doug Rehberg of Gor-don
College, "The American
Studies Program has been far
more meaningful to me and
substantive to my political sci-ence
education than I could have
ever believed. I will always be
reaping the benefits of this
practical experience in Washing-ton."
Consortium President Werke-ma
believes the program is
important and has been well
received because "it so success-fully
accomplishes the integra-tion
of theory and practice; the
integration of faith and learning;
the testing of ones Christian
commitment with the realities of
contemporary society; and, the
unique opportunity to develop
Christian community."
Applications for the fall term
are being accepted now in the
Christian College Consortium
office. The deadline for submit-ting
applications is April 15.
Psych, Christianity Chapman
relationship examined serves
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Wayne Grudem is the new theology professor.
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Clarion survey
Seniors would make
changes if had chance
by Dan Larson
Twenty-seven seniors were
asked: "If you had the choice,
what would you do differently in
your college experience?" Nine-teen
of the students have been at
Bethel for their entire college
education, and eight are trans-fers.
Bob Bowman : "Instead of
taking four classes every semes-ter,
I would have taken three and
gone to Bethel for five years. I
would have had time to be
involved in Christian Service."
Bill Trollinger said he would
have become involved in a church
before his senior year. "For a
while, my erstwhile roommate
and I picked our churches by
going through the phone book."
Dave B. Johnson : "I wish I had
been involved in a Bible study
earlier — because now I see that
fellowship is so important in
Christian life. I would also have
made a habit of sharing more
closely with my friends."
Lori Brodd: "I would become
friends with a greater variety of
people."
Sue Greene: "I would try not to
be so preoccupied with the social
life; I had marriage on the brain."
Nancy Moulton: "I would have
lived in the dorm instead of a
townhouse my freshman year if
possible."
Nancy Jo Horvath and Faith
Conn said they would have spent
more time studying instead of
socializing. "I enjoyed people a
lot, but I mixed up some of my
priorities," said Nancy Jo.
Dawn Nordstrom: "I would
have discovered earlier the enjoy-ment
in learning. I would have
tried to learn for the joy in doing
research for myself rather than
just learning the things the
professor wanted me to know."
Phyllis Buttner said she
learned a lot by changing majors
many times. "I wouldn't have
done anything differently," she
said, "I had to figure out what the
Lord wanted me to do and where
my interests lay."
Sue Greene also said she
would have taken required
courses in the beginning. "How-ever,"
she said, "at that time I
thought I was going into dental
hygiene, but now I'm in drama."
Several students thought that
attending another school besides
Bethel would have been good. "I
wouldn't have kept myself limited
to Bethel courses," said Sue
Greene, "but would have investi-gated
courses in other colleges,
perhaps on a summer basis, so
that more time could have been
given to plays." Renae Warmouth
said, "I would probably have
studied in Europe a year."
Jeff Miller: "I wish I had known
ahead of time why I was coming
here. Then I would have known
what I was after and what I could
gain."
Some students thought fewer
years at Bethel would have been
beneficial. Sue Fox said, "I would
have taken a variety of courses,
such as ceramics and more Bible
classes, instead of worrying
about fulfilling requirements, and
probably would have quit after
two years."
Jay Wik said, "I would have
thought more seriously of trans-ferring
after my sophomore year
because I'm interested in com-mercial
aviaiton."
Jim Norris: "I would not have
come to Bethel. The reason is
that I'm interested in photogra-phy
which I found out too late."
Tim Zimmerman: "After two
years I would have seriously
contemplated transferring to a
university with a larger curricu-lum
and choice of faculty. I'm
disappointed in the inconsisten-cy
between educational policy
rhetoric and actual performance.
This can be particularly seen in
the difference between descrip-tion
and class syllabi, and the
actual or real performance of the
teacher in the classroom."
Dan Becker: "I wish I had gone
here my first two years of college
because I like Bethel a lot. I also
wish there had been enough
writing courses to make up a
major."
Terri Johnson: "I wish I had
started here because it's a pain
transferring. I was out of se-quence
in the music program and
classes from other schools are
transferred only as .83 credits.
Jan Curry: "I wish working
overseas had been required as
part of my political science
major, and I wish a senior class
surveying the social sciences had
been offered."
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by Laura Alden
I had always presumed the
corporate collegiate mind to be a
fairly open and reasonable one.
Now, as a seasoned senior, I have
concluded that the open mind is a
myth. This thesis is based on
subjective experience and can be
summed up in a word: "stump."
It was new (and news) to me
that the word "stump" was so
uproariously funny, especially
when referring to a person's,
physique. I admit that I am not a
titan when it comes to vertical
inches. But a "stump?"
The nightmare began one naive
and freshman even. I was duti-fully
(and somewhat dourly)
studying my colloquy notes when
I heard whispering through the
solid paperthin townhouse walls.
"I think it's all the coffee she
drinks," rapsed a voice.
"No, no. It's genetic. Her
parents are pygmies too," said
another.
"You're both wrong," a third
voice countered. Then, in a barely
audible undertone: "It's — glan-dular!"
"Really?!"
"Can your glands make you a
stump?"
"Stump!"
"Stump!" (shrieks of hilarious
laughter)
I was crushed. That word.
Cruel. Belittling. I felt sawed-off,
miniscule, puny. But I never told
them that I'd overheard.
The next day I bought two pairs
of platform shoes and started
posture exercises in my closet. (I
even tried to poof up my hair, but
discovered that thin, stringy hair
is non-poofable.)
I thought these steps were
successful in subverting the
"stump" mindset. But this was
the point where my present
theory gained ground. Whenever I
brought up the subjebt of my
height, the by-word of narrow
minds crept into the conversa-tion.
"Why can't you just accept
yourself? Being a stump isn't that
bad!" (Guffaws.)
So I became resentful, espe-cially
against those proponents
of the unkind (yet extremely
popular) "Lilliputian" vernacular.
These people, who are usually at
least 5-foot-10, take a strange
delight in uttering words that
destroy the short person's image.
"Stump" heads the list. Other
remarks, referring to people
under 5-foot-4 as runts, midgets,
urchins, Tom Thumbs, shrimps,
peewees or insects, don't do
much for the short person's
self-image.
In my resentful years, I devel-oped
an intellectually superior
attitude toward these image-slayers.
I fancied myself as an
aristocrat, living above the
world's slandering serfs. They
were the dull-witted, one-liner
cynics. I was above that, if not in
height, at least in mind.
Then came the enlightenment.
It happened while my friend Anne
and I were playing "gourmet
cooks" in Anne's kitchen. I didn't
see her roommate Sylvia walk in.
Sylvia was behind me when
Anne introduced her. I whirled
around, looking up to meet her.
There was no one there. Glancing
down from my tower of 5-foot-2, I
met Sylvia, who was all of
4-foot-10!
The sibilant of "stump" started
to form between my teeth.
Luckily, Anne intervened, send-ing
Sylvia on an errand.
I stood in shock for ten
seconds, letting my own narrow
mind recover from the jarring.
Then I, the aristocrat, gave up my
rights to pride and joined the
serfs.
Grudem
joins
faculty
by Kathleen Asselin
Wayne Grudem, the new pro-fessor
in the theology and
Biblical studies department,
breezed into town from Cam-bridge,
England, two weeks ago.
Two days later, he taught his first
day of classes at Bethel College.
And on Friday of the same week,
the Grudems moved into their
Arden Hills home between Theol-ogy
and Christian Ethics.
The 29-year-old professor has a
Jimmy-Carter grin, atom-ant
glasses of tortoise shell, and
dimples. While enthusiastic
about teaching at Bethel and
living in the Midwest again,
squash-buff Wayne Grudem has a
fascinating tale of how he ended
up where he is.
After graduation from Harvard
and Westminster Theological
Seminary and ordination at Salem
Baptist Church in Eau Claire,
Wis., Grudem traveled to Cam-bridge
University in England.
There he studied for his Ph.D. in
New Testament.
In January 1972, Grudem took a
course in Modern Hebrew at the
Institute of Holy Land Studies in
Jerusalem. Who else was living in
the same building but Dr. Art
Lewis, Dr. Walter Wessel, and the
Interim Israel class from Bethel?
Wayne and his wife, Margaret,
became fast friends with the
Wessels and Lewises from their
continual contact throughout the
month.
"Two years ago, Dr. Wessel
came to Cambridge on Sabbati-cal,"
said Grudem. "When we had
him over for dinner, he mentioned
that there was an opening in the
theology department at Bethel."
With Wessel's encouragement,
Grudem sent his application to
Dr. Al Glenn, chairman of the
department. This past November,
Grudem arrived in Minnesota to
finalize his appointment to the
department and then find a home.
Although he tasted Minnesota's
deep-freeze weather before re-turning
to take his oral exam at
Cambridge in January, Grudem
said that he was "happy to get
back to this climate. It's not
always wet like England."
Wayne Grudem is especially
enthused about teaching system-atic
theology.
"I switched my Ph.D. work to
New Testament because it al-lowed
me to work more with the
Bible itself," he explained, "but
actually I enjoy being somewhere
between theology and Biblical
studies."
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ABSURDITIES
The Drama Department has outdone itself in its contribution to
the absurdity page. When you talk about absurd professors,
you normally mention the Jerry Healys and the Al Glenns (have
you ever seen a more ridiculous photo than the one on the first
page?) But Dale Rott is more than equal to the task. His
eccentricities will live on immortal in the annals of Bethel
College.
We really don't need to be wasting your time or ours explaining
why the Banking Window is an absurdity. For instance, we
snapped this candid shot as one dumbounded student tried to
explain the difference between a one and a five dollar bill. At
the other window, a seasoned Banking Window veteran offers
his ten fingers in substitution for the broken abacus.
You've got to wonder what the 1977 freshmen are going to think
when they realize this is the New New Dorm. On second
thought, you've got to wonder what the 1987 freshmen are
going to think. But an incoming freshman will no longer have to
face 22 to a showerhead. You just never know where a creative
use of space will get you.
Take this photo for what it's worth. We did, but we printed it
anyway. No Bethel absurdity page is complete without the
Clarion staff, replete with a hooded Dan Erickson posing for the
absent David Shelley. Zzzzzzzzzz.
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Arts Calendar
Visual Art
Feb. 18-28 Painting is the Object, Michael Mactavish and
Robert Patrick, West Bank Union Gallery, U. of M.
Feb. 18-28 Judy Blain, paintings, Artisan's World, 2274 Como
Ave.
Feb. 18-28 Doug Luo, watercolors, Suzanne Kohn Gallery,
1690 Grand Ave.
Music
Feb. 19, 26 The Passion According to St. Matthew, J.S. Bach,
Mn. Opera Company at O'Shaughnessy
Auditorium (221-0256)
Feb. 28 An Evening with Tchaikovsky, 8 p.m. Orchestra
hall. Tickets at Daytons and Orchestra Hall.
Feb. 19 P.D.O. Bach, Orchestra Hall.
Theatre
Feb. 18-28 Vanities; Anything Goes; I Do, I Do, Chanhassen
Dinner Theatre (474-4181)
Feb. 18-28 The Good Doctor, Friars/ Downtown Dinner
theatre (332-4474).
Feb. 18- Steambath, Theatre-In-The-Round
March 13
Dance
Feb. 19 Paul Taylor Dance Co., Northrup (373-2345)
March 3 Bayanihan Philippine Dance Co., Northrup
(373-2345)
March 13 San Francisco Ballet, Northrup (373-2345)
March 13 Osipov Balalaika Orchestra with Stars of the
Bolshoi Ballet and Opera, Northrup
Special Events
March 8-12 A Matter of Gravity with Katharine Hepburn at St.
Paul Civic Center (333-8883)
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Network: insult to intelligence
by Dawn Hart
Claims that "TV will never be
the same" prodded The Clarion to
view the "monumental" Network.
We cannot allow such an atrocity
to go on making such grandiose
claims which hold no water. Why
Network has been nominated for
ten Academy Awards boggles our
minds, insults our intelligence
and deflates our expectations of
American cinema.
Network is the story of UBS, a
competing television network,
presumably on the same level as
ABC, CBS and NBC. The goal of
UBS centers around the National
Public Ratings and the race for
the number one spot.
Paddy Chayefsky, screenwrit-er,
seems to be attempting to
glue numerous subplots into one
cohesive plot. All he ends up with
are sticky globs of unrelated
story lines.
Gene Shalit (Ladies Home
Journal, February 1977) echoes
these sentiments as he states
that, "Chayefsky seems to be
hitting about six typewriters at
once as he concocts a conglom-erate
of plots that zap the Arabs,
Patty Hearst, big business, sex,
black revolutionaries, television
news, career women and the
public."
Because he tries to combine so
many unrelated plots (that could
stand alone), he succeeds in
subverting each one. In doing so,
The Children's Theatre
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ushers for their public per-formances
for weekend days
and evenings. Complimentary
tickets are available for this
service. If you are interested
please contact:
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by Jim Torgerson
Two Bethel students, Dave
Johnson and Gary Setterberg,
accompanied by Dr. John Lawyer
of Bethel's Political Science
Department, participated in the
National Association of Evan-gelicals
Federal Seminar Jan. 31 -
Feb. 4 in Washington D.C.
They studied Christian influ-ence
on U.S. government through
briefing sessions, visits to vari-ous
places, and interaction with
government officials.
A number of speakers de-scribed
their experiences in gov-ernment.
Some of the people that
spoke to them were: Senator
Mark Hatfield; Supreme Court
Justice William H. Rehnquist;
Congressman Don L. Bonker;
Congressman John B. Anderson;
Peace Corps Director John Del-lenback;
a panel of people from
the press including Edward D.
Plowman, News Editor of Chris-tianity
Today; Sojourners Editor
Wes Michelson; and Chuck Col-he
produces a "schizophrenic
farce that doesn't know where it's
going and gets lost not getting
there." (Shalit)
The overriding theme present-ed
(television's control of the
American public) gets lost some-where
between pages 10 and 14.
If all the unsavory words
uttered in Network were deleted,
Chayefsky would be left with a
gaunt skeleton of a script. The
script is not conducive to charac-ter
development, adequate pac-ing
or picturesque blocking.
As far as character develop-ment
is concerned, the actors
managed to stereotype their
by Dan Anderson
As I sit down to write this
article, temperatures are climbing
higher, snowdrifts are shrinking
lower, and talk of Florida has
reached even the most remote
corners of the LRC. BUT WAIT!
Before we give up on winter
altogether, we must have our
annual tribute to that cold cloak
that covers our countryside,
bringing beauty and wintery
recreation. This tribute is, of
course, known as SNO DAZE,
and snow or no snow the word is
still go for next weekend, Febru-ary
25th and 26th.
It all begins Friday with a
Frankie Avalon movie, "Ski Par-ty."
There will be no admission
charge, and it will begin at 8 p.m.
in the gymnasium.
Saturday will consist of out-door
activities, including the
traditional polar-bear dip, a cross
country ski race, tubing on Mt.
Zion, and a snow sculpture
contest. These are, of course,
contingent upon weather condi-son,
former White House aide.
Dr. Lawyer said that what
impressed him the most was the
breadth of the views represented.
He said, "The speakers covered a
wide expanse of government
positions.
"There were people from each
branch of government and also
the press. The people that talked
were from top level decision-making
positions on down. Also,
the speakers had widely differing
Christian philosophies that
helped make the seminar inter-esting,"
he said.
The three of them were able to
meet privately with several gov-ernment
officials. Johnson said,
"It was a real advantage to have
Dr. Lawyer as our faculty advisor.
His experience in Washington
made it possible for us to see
people and things that would
have been impossible without
him."
Dr. Lawyer said, "It was most
valuable seeing different people
at work and listening as they
characters even more than the
script dictated. Peter Finch and
William Holden were, at times,
on the brink of a character
discovery. However, Faye Dun-away
and crew were disasters.
Although Network lacked in
many areas, a few humorous
scenarios, some clever staging
gimmicks and a few well-conceived
character bits did
shine through. Basically, though,
in attempting to surgically dis-sect
television, Network has,
instead, performed a surgical
butchering job that slits cinema
open and reveals its inner weak-nesses.
tions and may have to be
cancelled. If this is the case,
there will be a snowflake hunt
where participants will be award-ed
prizes for finding any remain-ing
snow.
Saturday night should prove to
be the highlight of SNO-DAZE.
The evening will begin with a
buffet dinner (all you can eat) at 6
p.m. in the gymnasium, with
seating at round tables under a
candlelight atmosphere. Follow-ing
the dinner, a stage will be
filled with our own Bethel talent
in a SNO-DAZE production called
"SNOW-BIZ." There will be re-served
seating for the dinner, and
tickets will be sold Monday, the
21st, through Wednesday, the
23rd. Ticket prices are $3.25,
$2.75 with SAC, and meal cards
may be used. We would like to
stress just how to dress. This will
be a semi-formal affair, which
means no jeans.
From "Ski Party" to "SNOW-BIZ"
it will be a busy, fun-filled
weekend, and we hope that most
students will participate.
explained the problems of their
jobs and Christianity." Dave
added that he was impressed by
the speaker's commitment to
God. "They are in positions of
power but their faith and commit-ment
to the Lord really came
out."
Gary said the event that
impressed him the most was the
speech Chuck Colson made the
final evening they were there. "He
told us how he had been in
power," Gary recalled, "and then
had lost all of his power. He
explained to us that political
power is nothing at all compared
to the power we have through
Jesus Christ.
"Colson reminded us that
political power is very transitory
and that we have greater power
within us because of Jesus
Christ," he added.
Dr. Lawyer said that the
seminar will probably be repeated
again next year and that Bethel
would send some students.
Sno-Daze to provide
`fun-filled weekend'
Christian influence in government
studied at recent NAE seminar
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squeeze past Augies
To the relief of the journalism department, I don't identify myself
with journalism per se. I'm sure it comes as no surprise to those of you
who have suffered through my past efforts in this publication, but I've
never even come close to taking a journalism course.
Be that as it may, I do have one thing in common with your
everyday, garden variety journalism purist. That is a rapacious appetite
for the language and a sometimes tactless intolerance for the
prostitution and misuse of that language.
I simply can't help but cringe when I heard the ever popular but never
correct, "irregardless" or the now hackneyed "paranoid." The former is
nothing more than a non-word and the latter is used to describe a
continuum of emotions ranging from anxiety to anger.
Even worse though, are the terms I hear used around Bethel that
constitute nothing sort of logic in effigy when used in their most
popular context.
The first one is the word "generalization." It has always been a
puzzling phenomena to me that any time anyone makes a
generalization in an argument, someone just on the fringe of the fray
always has to blurt out effusively, "But that's a generalization!!"
After this astute observation everyone generally (oops, there's one
of those nasty little varmits right now) nods their head in agreement
and quite summarily discounts the argument as being invalid. My
answer to this proud proclamation is always, "So what?" Obviously
the little sharpie who correctly identified your point is working under
the premise that all generalizations are just short of blasphemy.
I beg to differ. Generalizations are not inherently bad. Not only are
they a necessary tool for the organization of data, but generalizations
are also stark naked logic. If a student goes to the banking window five
times and five times he hears something like, "I don't care if you do
have a cancelled check, you haven't paid for second semester," or the
amusing, "We seem to have lost any record of your ever having
attended Bethel," he has no choice but to conclude that the
organization of the Bethel business office is less than efficient. Not
only has he concluded this via generalization, but in this case, he is
undoubtedly correct. The only time the generalization would be bad is
if one concluded that every experience with the banking window would
be ludicrous just because most encounters with the banking window
are, or if one failed to change his opinion in light of new data.
Another example of the profanation of our language is the usage of
the word "discrimination." Just as "generalization," discrimination is
many times assumed to be pernicious.
A good example is an argument I was having with a friend of mine a
few months ago. We were talYng about the injustices of the food card
system and how women are always stuck with cards at the end of the
year and so are forced to sell them for less than they are worth. It has
always been my position that if we all have to buy a minimum of food
cards that women should have to buy less than men. My friend cried
"Discrimination!" and I agree with her.
It is discrimination but it is fair discrimination. Women should have
to buy less food cards for the same reason that cars pay less highway
tax than do trucks. Just as a two ton car that is driven maybe 30 miles
a day doesn't put as much wear and tear on the road as a 20 ton semi
that travels 500 miles a day, a 125 pound woman is not going to eat as
much as a 185 pound man.
Discrimination, in the connotative definition of the word, is hateful.
But our overusage of the word itself has been taken to an absurd and
infinite degree in this country. We have got to start shooting for what
is fair and not the mythical and ethereal "equality" that we are
obsessed with.
Last but not least is the ultimate cop out, "It's the Lord's will." This
is used when one is too afraid to tell another person what he is feeling
so he simply blames it on God.
In its popular form it is manifested in the dating relationship. I've
never heard the line myself but more than one "Dear John" or "Dear
Mary" speech has started with, "I don't feel it is the Lord's will that
we . .." Instead of telling the person that one's feelings have changed,
one can rather conveniently hide behind the Lord's will and
subsequently absolve self of any responsibility for the ensuing hurt
feelings.
by Linda Dowden
During the past week the
Bethel women's basketball team
hosted two games. In the first
game, on Saturday afternoon,
they played Concordia-St. Paul
and won 62 to 41. On Monday
night they played Augsburg and
also won by a score of 45 to 41.
Against Concordia they took an
early lead in the first half and held
it through the whole game to win.
Gail Anderson was the highest
scorer for the game with 15
points.
In the game against Augsburg
on Monday night the Bethel girls
started with a big lead early in the
half and were able to hold on to it
through halftime. They did a
good job defensively and held the
Augies' scoring down to a
minimum.
The half time score was Bethel
24, Augies 9. This marked a 15
point difference and the widest
margin between teams.
Beginning in the second half,
all the Bethel team members had
a chance to play in the game, as
they maintained their big lead.
Augsburg began to catch up in
by Greg Wilcox
Senioritis or panic, call it what
you want, is when the end of your
college experience is only a few
short months away and the
inevitable "what are you going to
do when you get out" becomes all
too real.
For some seniors graduation
from Bethel does not mean the
end of school, as some type of
post-graduate work lies ahead.
But for others, graduation means
venturing into that "real" world
that lies somewhere outside the
hallowed halls of Bethel.
Being one of those whose
future does not include grad
school, I decided to visit Paul
Redin, head of Bethel's place-ment
office. (After four years I too
was wondering if there really was
anything you could do with a
history major.)
Not being one to beat around
the bush I asked Paul Redin what
he thought he could do for me.
His answer was just as staight-forward.
"Not a thing." Instead,
he talked about what I would have
to do for myself.
the second half with about eight
minutes left to be played in the
game. In the next five minutes the
Augies brought the score to
within one point of the Royals
lead.
Bethel score the next two
points and a time out was called
with 2:31 minutes left with a
score of Bethel 42, Augsburg 39.
Bethel held Augsburg score-less
until less than one minute
left. One of the Augsburg girls hit
from outside the key, bringing
the score back to a one point lead
for Bethel.
Janet Reynolds was fouled
with 27 seconds left and made
free throw. Cindi Ramm was
fouled seconds later and scored
two more points with three
seconds left to bring the final
score to 45-41.
Cindi Martin and Cathy Olson
were high scorers with 12 and 10
points respectively.
The last games of the season
for the Bethel women will be this
weekend when they participate in
the State-District tournament to
be held at Concordia-St. Paul.
The season record for the team
is 6 wins and 10 losses.
Know yourself, be honest in
your evaluation of yourself. This
was the advice I was given.
Take out a piece of paper and
write down your particular skills
and abilities. Plan out where you
want to be in five years and set
some goals. Organize yourself.
Identify areas that interest you
and set out what values you hold.
All these are important and
should be considered when
choosing a career.
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Records go
in coed
track meet
by Bruce Olsen
Six Bethel records were broken
and two fieldhouse records
smashed as the Bethel track team
competed in a coed track meet.
-The Feb. 12 meet at St. Olaf also
fielded teams from the University
of Wisconsin at River Falls and
Northwestern College of St. Paul.
For the men, Larry Caldwell
broke the school record in the
mile run with a time of 4:18.7.
His time also qualified him to
compete in the NAIA Nationals.
Other school records were by
Curt Brown in the 600 yard run
(1 :13.5), and the mile relay team
of Graydon Held, Kevin Shenk,
Curt Brown, and Gene Blair
(3:30.8).
Blair also took two first place
finishes in the 300 yard dash
(32.7) and the 440 yard dash
(52.1).
Long jumper Rick Knopf also
took a first place ribbon with a
jump of 21'6".
The best effort for the women's
squad was turned in by freshman
Jan Engel in the shot put. She set
a new fieldhouse record with a
toss of 35'6".
Bobbi Hersch broke two Bethel
records in the long jump and the
300 yard dash.
Hersch recorded a 16'10" effort
in the long jump, good enough
for second place. Her 300 yard
dash time of 41 seconds gave her
a fourth place finish.
First place finishes for the
women included a 4'9" high jump
by sophomore Carol Anderson.
Cheryl Staurseth also recorded a
first place finish with a 9.5 time in
the 60 yard hurdles.
As a team, the Bethel men
finished second to St. Olaf with a
score of 52.5. The women tallied
a third place finish behind St.
Olaf and River Falls.
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This service is by no means
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are also encouraged in come
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For those seniors who have
made an art out of procrastina-tion,
time is running out. If you
have not made an appointment
yet, expect to be contacted by the
placement office in the next few
weeks.
Advice available for
panic-stricken seniors
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Bethel basketbaUers prepare to recoup disastrous weekend.
Cagers work hard but reap no
rewa rds; drop pair over weekend
Student sweeps lake after IM broomball game.
Martin scratches head in rare moment of frustration.
Scores 39 vs. Carleton
Cindy Martin leads
women to victory
by Bruce Olsen
"If there is a low point in the
season, this has to be it,"
lamented Coach Roger Davis
after his team had lost both ends
of last weekend's doubleheader.
The Royal cagers lost to North-western
College of Iowa on
Friday and Westmar College on
Saturday.
The Royals started off quickly
against Northwestern, playing
aggressive basketball at both
ends of the court. But they were a
little too aggressive for the
referees and were soon in foul
trouble. Northwestern found
themselves in the bonus situation
with only six minutes gone in the
game.
Besides being in foul trouble,
Bethel also faced a very good Red
by Bruce Olsen
Forfeits and a pin by heavy-weight
Jeff Zitzloff led the Bethel
wrestlers to an easy 30-17 victory
over Hamline University last
Friday night. The Pipers fielded
only five wrestlers, as the Royals
won four matches by forfeit.
The match started off very
quickly with a double forfeit in
the 118 pound class. Two more
forfeits by Hamline at 126 and 134
gave Bethel a quick 12-0 lead.
The first match of the night
finally came in the 142 pound
weight class, with both teams
finding a wrestler at that weight.
For the fans who came five
minutes late, it was somewhat
surprising to see that they had
missed nearly half of the meet.
Lonnie Holmgren was defeated
in his match at 142 to cut the
Royal's lead to seven. But
another Hamline forfeit at 150 to
Royal wrestler Mike Reeves gave
Probes' and 'Grunt' lead IM open league
by Gayle Trollinger
When was the last time you
saw a basketball player score 39
points in one game? Cindy
Martin, captain of the women's
basketball team, did just that as
the team beat Carleton 63-55 on
Feb. 4.
Martin, a junior from Lisbon,
Iowa, has played competitive
basketball since she was a
freshman in high school. She
completed two years on the JV
team and two on the varsity team.
She has played three years for
Bethel and has started each year.
In Iowa, a six-person game is
played, while five person teams
are floored in Minnesota. Cindy
reflected on its effect: "I have
had much less experience in
defense so I obviously prefer
playing offense.
Iowa coaches stressed funda-mentals,
Martin reflected. "It was
a good experience. I feel I have a
better grasp of the fundamentals
than other girls." Cindy is also
left-handed and uses it to an
advantage. "It helps a lot — no
one expects people to go to the
left and that's all I do."
This year's team has a heavier
schedule than years before, ac-cording
to Martin. "We have a
good team, but we're just not
by Debbie Valder
Intramural action began again
last week with open league
basketball and broomball teams.
In basketball the Big Apples
were steam rolled 64-32 by the
Probes, Gigs and Dozers, who
weren't nearly so tan but had
much more skill.
True Grunt made a strong
second half comeback to out-score
the Pink Panthers 57-53. Al
Jones and Mark Stevens were
high scorers for True Grunt with
22 and 18 respectively, but the
key to this game was Pink
Panther Bob Merritt's four fouls
in the first half leaving Loren
Helm to carry most of the load for
the Panthers.
Jay Alvin's off-rebound baskets
and Kim Walker's 16 points killed
the No Names 59-39.
eight
playing up to our potential. We'll
play a good half than we don't
look too good. We can't get it all
together."
Cindy cites defense as one
weak area. "We do too much
scrambling. Overall, we need to
be quicker and our passes don't
move like they should."
Despite its weaknesses the
team is recognized as having
great potential. One referee said
Bethel is the team of the future.
Being the captain of the team
puts some extra pressures on
Cindy. "I feel like I have to set an
example and have to make extra
time available to talk to team-mates."
She has a full schedule as she
has a P.E./Elem. Ed. double
major. She also has plans to get
her coaching certificate. She
sews most of her own clothes
and plays the piano. Softball
practice will begin soon so Cindy
will begin getting her arm ready
for the spring campaign as
pitcher.
"I have always wanted to play
basketball. I like the competition
and I like showing that I can be a
girl and still play well." With 39
points in one game she has
definitely shown her playing
ability.
Young and Restless versus
Charlie's Angels was a close
game which see-sawed the first
ten minutes. Kevin Hallstrom led
a second half comeback for the
Young and Restless but Charlie's
Angels made them just a little too
restless with balanced teamwork
and won 47-39.
In other games Silly Goosers
beat El Laser on the Strength of
Jeff Berglund's 14 points and
Wink's Finks over came Upper
New Volta 53-44.
Broomball is just getting under
way with six more games to be
played if the weather holds. The
Svensonians lead the league now
with two wins, no losses.
The Razzies, Schut's, and
Gardners are an even 1-1. The
Divet's are 0-1 and Stevie's
Wonders really need to see light
to improve their 0-2 standing.
Raider squad. "They shot very
well and were very disciplined,"
said Davis.
Northwestern finished the
game with a 52 percent shooting
mark from the floor, compared to
37 percent for the Royals. The
final score was 76-58,
High scorer in the game was
freshman Dave Blanchard with
14, followed by Scott Wilson with
11 and Doug Erickson with 10.
Wilson also added 12 rebounds
for the night.
The following afternoon
brought the Royals to LeMars,
Iowa to face more of the same
from Westmar College. Bethel
started very slowly, missing
many easy shots early in the
game. The defense also fell
through, as Westmar jumped off
to a quick lead.
Davis had this to say about the
game: "If we would have made
those shots early in the game, we
probably would have won. But
once they got a lead, they just
seemed to take off on us. They
remained intense, and we didn't."
Will Healy finished as high
scorer for the Royals with 19
points. He was followed by Curt
Oslin with 14 and Blanchard with
12. Junior Tom Koenigsberg
finished with 15 rebounds in the
94-76 loss.
The two losses put the Royal's
conference record at 2-5. Overall
the Bethel cagers are 8-14.
Tonight at 7:30 p.m. the
Royals will entertain Sioux Falls
College. On Saturday afternoon
we will host a game against
Yankton College starting at 2:30
p.m. These two games will be the
last home games of the season
for the Royal b-ballers.
Bethel a commanding 18-5 lead.
At 158, Greg Kaihoi lost a close
6-3 decision to close Bethel's
lead to 10 points. Kaihoi made a
good comeback in the second
period, as he scored all three of
his points. But he tired in the
third period and lost on a reversal
to the Piper grappler.
The two teams traded forfeits
at the 167 and 177 weight classes
to put the score at 24-14.
In the next match, Barrett
Holmgren was stopped by a score
of 6-0. The 190 pound wrestler
never managed to hold control
over his opponent long enough to
score any points.
Jeff Zitzloff pinned his man
with three seconds left in the
second period in what was
perhaps the most exciting match
of the evening. "Zitz" held a 3-0
lead at the time of his pin.
Zitzloff, who normally wrestles
in the 177 pound weight class,
was filling in for the injured Gary
Peterson. Peterson, who has
been Bethel's most consistent
wrestler this year, hurt his ankle
earlier in the week in practice. He
is expected to wrestle in the
conference meet tomorrow.
The final match of the season
will be tomorrow for the Tri-State
Conference championship. West-mar
College of LeMars, Iowa is
the host school and is expected
to win the meet. The Royals
should have a good shot at
second place. The meet will
begin at 10 a.m.
Forfeits and Zitzlof pin aid
grapplers in victory over Hamline